3.2: Funding
Create a new funding approach that applies FII's mobility principles to funding and resourcing low-income communities. Other Information:
New Approaches To Funding Resident Initiative -- FII is working with a small group of philanthropic and other leaders to create
a new funding approach that applies FII's mobility principles to funding and resourcing low-income communities. This new funding
approach is an alternative to funding silos that specify whether resources are dedicated to housing, job development, or education,
for example. While all of these areas are important, siloed funding structures prevent families from setting their own priorities.
FII's approach delivers funding based on community priorities, not pre-established silos. In our current system, professionals
develop interventions to "solve" problems identified for requests from funders, either ignoring or never seeking solutions
that are developed by residents who are the true experts on their lives. Our new approach also focuses on finding solutions
that are developed by residents in low-income communities and funding them directly. For a more in-depth exploration of the
obstacles in our current approaches and some solutions read The Uphill Battle to Scale an Innovative Antipoverty Approach
by Maurice Lim Miller and published by the New America Foundation.
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